canary
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
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(countable, informal, uncountable)A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.
- 4.
(countable, slang, uncountable)An informer or snitch; a squealer.
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(countable, uncountable)A light, slightly greenish, yellow colour.
- 6.
(countable, slang, uncountable)A (usually yellow) capsule of the short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital/pentobarbitone (nembutal).
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(Australia, countable, informal, uncountable)A yellow sticker applied by the police to a vehicle to indicate it is unroadworthy.
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(countable, uncountable)Any test subject, especially an inadvertent or unwilling one. (From the mining practice of using canaries to detect dangerous gases.)
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(countable, uncountable)(computing) A value placed in memory such that it will be the first data corrupted by a buffer overflow, allowing the program to identify and recover from it.
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(countable, uncountable)(computing) A change that is tested by being rolled out first to a subset of machines or users before rolling out to all.
- 11.
(countable, uncountable)A light, sweet, white wine from the Canary Islands.
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(countable, uncountable)A lively dance, possibly of Spanish origin (also called canaries).
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Of a light yellow colour.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(intransitive)To dance nimbly (as in the canary dance).
- 2.
(slang)To inform or snitch, to betray secrets, especially about illegal activities.
- 3.
(software engineering) To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
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From French canarie, from Spanish canario, from the Latin Canariae insulae (Canary Islands) (Islas Canarias); from the largest island Insula Canaria (Dog Island" or "Canine Island), named for its dogs, from canārius (canine), from canis (dog).